Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel

Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel

ISBN-10:
0824817109
ISBN-13:
9780824817107
Pub. Date:
07/01/1995
Publisher:
University of Hawaii Press, The
ISBN-10:
0824817109
ISBN-13:
9780824817107
Pub. Date:
07/01/1995
Publisher:
University of Hawaii Press, The
Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel

Family Catastrophe: A Modernist Novel

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Overview

Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception to become what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fiction and the benchmark of Taiwan’s Modernist movement.

Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylistic and linguistic experimentation as well as for its disturbing and universal themes. It appears now in English for the first time.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780824817107
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, The
Publication date: 07/01/1995
Series: Fiction from Modern China , #4
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.27(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.72(d)
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